15 needs from Murray's theoretical work (1938) were used to assess and analyze the need systems of 20 men convicted of forcible rape and compared to those of a control group of 20 violent, but non-sex, offenders. Three instruments were used: Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, the TAT, and a semi-structured interview. As predicted, the over-all need profiles of the rapists and the non-rapists were statistically non-parallel on two of the three instruments. Rapists also differed significantly on four specific needs on two of the three instruments. These results are discussed with relation to psychoanalytic theory.
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